Romance of the Western Chamber (film)

1927 film by Hou Yao

Romance of the Western Chamber

1927 Chinese movie poster

Directed by| Hou Yao
Written by| Hou Yao
Play:
Wang Shifu
Cinematography| Liang Linguang
Lai Man-Wai

Production
company

China Sun Motion Picture Company (Shanghai)

Release dates

* 8 September 1927 (1927-09-08) (Hangzhou Theater, China)[1]

Running time

| 42 min. (orig.)
45 min. (2007 DVD release)
Country| China
Languages| Silent film
Written Chinese and French intertitles
Scene from the film.

Romance of the Western Chamber (Chinese: 西廂記; pinyin: xīxiāngjì), also known as Way Down West, is a 1927 silent Chinese film drama directed by Hou Yao.

The film is an adaption of the classic Chinese dramatic work Romance of the Western Chamber by Wang Shifu.

Originally consisting of ten film reels, only five have survived.[1]

The 2007 USA DVD release by Cinema Epoch has an additional original musical score composed by Toshiyuki Hiraoka.

## Cast

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[1]

* Lim Cho Cho \- as Cui Yingying, the daughter of the late Prime Minister
* Li Dandan \- as Hongniang, the maidservant of yingying
* He Minzhuang (M. C. Noo) - as Madame Cui, the mother of Yingying
* T. K. Kar \- as wise student Zhang Gong
* Tsao Yao Dein \- as an old monk Fa Pen
* Lee Wha Ming/Li Huamin \- as Sung Fei Fu (Tiger Sun), the bandit king
* Lu Ying Lang/Li Yinlan \- as monk Wei Hing, the messenger with bō staff
* Wang Longxi \- as clever monk
* Hu Chichang \- as the White Horse General
* Zhu Yaoting \- as the stupid monk
* Huang Ke \- as the boy servant

## References

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1. ^ a b c 1927: "Romance of the Western Chamber" and Ancient Costume Movies. Accessed 26 October 2009.

## Further reading

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* Harris K. (1999), "The Romance of the Western Chamber and the Classical Subject Film in 1920s Shanghai" in Zhang Y. (ed.), Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. pp. 51–73.

## External links

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* Romance of the Western Chamber at IMDb
* http://www.dvdtalk.com/silentdvd/romance_of_the.html

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Western Chamber

Text|

* Yingying's Biography
* Romance of the Western Chamber

Characters|

* Cui Yingying
* Hongniang
* Student Zhang (Zhang Gong)

Adaptations|

* Romance of the Western Chamber (1927 film)
* Lost in the Chamber of Love (2004 TV series)
* Romance of the Western Chamber (2013 TV series)

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